Humanity One Very Interesting Aspect
One very interesting aspect of the human experience is the manner in which certain themes appear again and again over time, in literature, religion, mythology, and culture – regardless of the geographic location, the economic status, and the time period. Perhaps it is the innate human need to explain and explore the known and unknown, but to have disparate cultures in time and location find ways of explaining certain principles in such similar manner leads one to believe that there is perhaps more to myth and ritual than simple repetition of archetypal themes. In a sense, then, to acculturize the future, we must re-craft the past, and the way that seems to happen is in the synergism of myth and ritual as expressed in a variety of forms that examine humanity.
Chinese History Wild Swans Jung
Jung Chang sources the lives of her grandmother, mother, and herself in her book, Wild Swans. Yu-fang is Jung's grandmother born in 1909; De-hong is her mother, born in 1931. This book is banned in Chang's native…